Reply #121: More importantly...

[snake in the grass]

...I would put my hand in a fire, if her administration were to have been as timid as this one has been to date (didn't Obama say something to the tune of he would "crush those who abused his open mindedness,"?). I'm still waiting on that one. Hillary is not scared of a fight and she's not worried that the Repigs' "wittle feewings" get hurt. On the whole, though, her policies may have been just as deferential to Big Bidness as those from Obama, we just would have gotten a few more crumbs.

I supported Kucinich in the primaries, but by the time California voted, he had been ridiculed and marginalized into silence. The choice between Clinton and Obama wasn't really a choice, because I found their platforms to be hardly distinguishable, so I really didn't care which one won. While I preferred Obama's health insurance plan over Hillary's, I voted for Clinton solely because I knew she had fight in her and because of the ugly way she was characterized in the primaries. With so many conservadrones and mediatrons shitting their pants at the thought of Hillary in the Whitehouse, it was clear whom they feared more and it wasn't the senator from Illinois. Obama was for me an unknown neophyte and the preacher-cadence turned me totally off, to be honest. To this day I prefer to read what he says as opposed to listening to it. That's not fair toward him, but after growing up in an extremely religious household and only until recent years being able to free myself of all the shit put in my head in that time (just turned 45), anything remotely religious makes my skin crawl.

After the primaries, I was somewhat impressed with him for his ruthlessness in securing the nomination (that's a compliment, because, as with most Democrats - Clinton excepted - I was expecting the same tepidness displayed by Gore and Kerry). Obama's campaign was truly brilliant in that, in spite of the mud-slinging from both sides, he came out with an immaculately clean vest (and yes, I know our fine, upstanding media representatives were giving him a shitload of cover, but it was still brilliant). As it was over and done with, I thought maybe he would have some fight in him after all. No such luck. I voted for Obama in the GE because he was better than McInsane, which I find is really a piss poor reason to get my vote, but hey, bigger things were at stake here.

President Obama hasn't disappointed me, nor will he ever, because I never expected so much from him in the first place. For others that is not the case. There's a cafe about a half a mile down the round that is run by two women, who are also a couple. During the primaries they hung up the iconic "Hope" poster in their window and were true believers, complete with that glazed-over look in their eyes (no joke, unfortunately). Around six months ago they took it down and neither of them really wants to say why. They just frown when one mentions anything relating to Obama.

I had a neighbor once, a really beautiful Austrian girl, who sometimes, late at night, would wake me up and crawl into my bed (she had a key to look after my cats). Afterward, she'd go back to her place. She never wanted to go out with me, I never met her friends, but this arrangement continued until I moved out. I sometimes feel like that is my relationship to the Democratic Party. Politicians discover their sexiness every few years, when the office is up for grabs, and once they have been satisfied, they go back to where they came from.

At least I also got something out of it when my neighbor fucked me.